Ultrasound as an Alternative to Conventional Marination: Acceptability and Mass Transfer

Input-Modulation as an Alternative to Conventional Learning Strategies

Animals use various strategies for learning stimulus-reward associations. Computational methods that mimic animal behaviour most commonly interpret learning as a high level phenomenon, in which the pairing of stimulus and reward leads to plastic changes in the final output layers where action selection takes place. Here, we present an alternative input-modulation strategy for forming simple sti...

Frozen oral hydration as an alternative to conventional enteral fluids.

BACKGROUND Oral hydration therapy is effective in dehydration, but is often bypassed or may fail. OBJECTIVE To compare the tolerance (amount accepted minus amount vomited) of a frozen solution (FS) (Revital-ICE, PTS Labs, Deerfield, Ill) with the conventional glucose electrolyte solution (CS). DESIGN Prospective, controlled crossover trial. SETTING Pediatric emergency department. PARTIC...

Ultrasound as an alternative to computed tomography for pediatric imaging.

Introduction of a Greenhouse as an Alternative Housing System to a Conventional House and Its Impact on Broiler Performance and Blood and Carcass Variables

A study was conducted to compare the growth performance as well as blood and carcass variables of two broiler strains reared in a conventional broiler house and a modified greenhouse equipped with cooling pads and tunnel ventilation system. Eight hundred day-old chickens of two commercial strains (Ross  308 and Lohmann) were selected and placed in  8 floor pens (4 pens of  50 broilers for each ...

Bacteriophage therapy: an alternative to conventional antibiotics.

Bacteriophage therapy is an important alternative to antibiotics in the current era of multidrug resistant pathogens. We reviewed the studies that dealt with the therapeutic use of phages from 1966-1996 and few latest ongoing phage therapy projects via internet. Phages were used topically, orally or systemically in Polish and Soviet studies. The success rate found in these studies was 80-95% wi...